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The Status of Women in the Academy

Although women have made great strides in academia in the last few years, they still trail behind men in terms of numbers hired, speed of promotion and salaries. They still face subtle discrimination. Only recently have major research institutions begun to address the issues and make a concerted effort to increase the hiring of women. This paper will look at the status of women in academia and what is being done to try and even the playing field.

When Robin Wilson wrote about the inequalities of women in academia in 2004, she cited data from 2001-2002 which showed that women made up roughly 60 percent of the undergraduate population, and for the first time, more doctorates were earned by women than by men at American universities (Wilson, 2004). At the same time, while women have made inroads in English and Psychology, more than 70 percent of professors teaching at America's top research institutions overall were men. At the entry level, men still made up almost 60 percent of the assistant professors that year at research universities, according to a survey by the Higher Education Research Institute of the University of California, Los Angeles.

At two-year research institutions, women accounted for 42 percent of full professors and at four year liberal arts colleges women accounted for 23 percent of full professors in 2001 (Gill, 2005). For each year after securing a tenure-track job, male assistant professors are 23 percent more likely to earn tenure than female assistant professors, and for each year after earning tenure, male professors are 36 percent more likely than female professors to be named full professors. At research universities women accounted for only 17 percent of full professors in 2001.

Between 1975 and 2001, women earned 50 percent of bachelor degrees and 40 percent of doctoral degrees in biological sciences and 50 percent of bachelor degrees and 33 percent of doctoral degrees in chemistry; they...

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